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Humiliated by HR during second week

I started a new job as a machinist last week and I’m on my second week and I’m already being humiliated by HR and management. Right now I’m training as a machinist, it’s 46 hours a week which I’ve never done before. I graduated college back in May and the job market has been such trash that I decided to take this opportunity since the money is pretty decent and so are the benefits. However, I am not used to this much physical labor and being constantly on my feet. Nearing the end of week two, I’m finally adjusting to it and I’m not as physically tired anymore. Yesterday, while my trainer was fixing something I decided to sit down for a few moments to rest my feet and body. The trainer thought I fell asleep, I very much wasn’t asleep. I was well aware of what she was doing…

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I quit my job because my managers didnt want to lift a finger and made me clean bathrooms and take out at least twelve bags of garbage. One manager just offered to mop the bathroom but she brought her infant daughter to work for the other manager to babysit.

I used to work at 7 eleven and I only worked there for less than a week. One day a manager made me do all the dirty work in the store and she barely lifted a finger while I had to take multiple trash bags out to the dumpster (at least 12) that were filled to the brim and many of the trash bags were filled with juices from slushes,big gulp drinks coffee, and energy drinks. The same manager who brought her infant daughter was openly mocking me asking if I was okay even though a few trash bins were so full, while pulling them out the bins they tilted over. Im only 5’1 and I pulled a stomach muscle bad while trying to keep the trash bags away from my body. That same manager asked me to clean the bathrooms later on that night and offered just to mop…

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Can one food service employee be excluded from the tipshare pool?

I work at a cafe as a baker, I have been there for a year. I don't have a lot of contact with the other staff since my work area is downstairs and I am the only baker. It has come to my attention that there is a tipshare pool for the kitchen staff that I was never told about and I have never seen any tips from. This cafe does a lot of business in the summer and I was working 12-16 hours a day producing baked goods and they all sold very well. Does anyone know if there is some legal reason that I could just be arbitrarily excluded from the tipshare right out of the gate? This is in Minnesota. Thanks

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Yes, you should not have any fun because work should be your only source of fulfillment

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My work new “strategy” to boost customer satisfaction

Listen to that bs lol. Our team used to be separated by accounts so you would only take calls from the accounts you was working on and you knew most answers to their questions. Management thought it would be better to have everyone answer everyone's calls and told us to just figure it out on the spot lol. So on top of getting questions about things I never heard about, when I email someone and tell them to call me back, I don't even get the call. It's hilarious and sad at the same time.

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I was cut from 25h/week to 5h/week

My work has been cutting everyone down to 1/2 shifts per week, no more than 5h per shift. Our projected earnings for February are $200,000, while our labor budget is roughly $3,200 per week. Even the managers are scrambling, they don't have enough money to schedule a minimum crew for the store. We have 2 people at a time in a full size retail store. We only opened 2 months ago, and our budget is 1/5 of what it was opening week.

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They asked if I wanted to come back to work even tho I quit 5 days ago

I finally quit and decided to drive by for some French fries. When the worker at the window recognized me she said, “It's just me and the manager for the after-school rush. You can come in and work if you want.” I was fricking gobsmacked. One of the reasons I quit is because they kept understaffing the second biggest rush of the day, and as a wage slave, you were supposed to buckle down and not question why that shift was chronically understaffed. EDIT: I went by after the lunch rush when they were slower to see an old friend.

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can my job force me to clean bed bug rooms?

I'm a housekeeper at an assisted living facility in NC. My supervisor told me we're expected to go into vacant bed bug infested rooms to clean even if they haven't been treated. Is that legal?

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Food safety at my restaurant is dreadful!

I’m short on money right now bc I got laid off right before christmas and have gotten rejected from pretty much every place I’ve interviewed. However, I just got a job serving at a japanese restaurant and it is like an actual kitchen nightmare back there. Cooked food next to raw meat, raw fish sitting out for hours and being served raw. Very scary stuff. I feel like a horrible person serving this stuff. The owner talks shit about all the servers and we aren’t even allowed to use scented lotion. I’m trying to find a new serving position at somewhere with a competent kitchen but i’m just so grossed out by it I thought I would share. also the storage closet looks like a hoarder lives in there and they don’t wash the pitchers 🤢 i cry

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Ghosted after 2 interviews and a 2.5 hour shadow?

I did 2 interviews for this job that has my skill requirements. The second interview with the managers went really well and they had me do a 2.5 hour shadow to get to know people and what the job entails. It seemed like everyone was friendly and it would be a good fit for me. But now I haven't heard anything from the recruiter or manager. I sent an email and a voicemail asking for a status update and still nothing… My friend who had applied to this place for a different job was rejected in a kind email, but I feel like I am being ghosted… This job did not have a lot of applicants as it is kind of specialized. I thought I nailed everything and seemed like the ideal candidate, but now I only get radio silence. Have other people experienced this?